Haiti - 2010

Cards (18)

  • 25km south west of Port au Prince
  • 10km deep focus
  • 7 moment magnitude
  • 4:53 government in session
  • 12 January 2010 - 30seconds
  • North American and Caribbean
    Enriquillo-Plantain fault
  • Soft rock in bay shaking
  • 250,000 homes destroyed
    30,000 commercial buildings destroyed
  • 50% of population is in Port au Prince
    72% of population <$2 per day
  • 60% of hospitals destroyed
    80% schools
  • 500,000 injured
    230,000 killed
    2.3 million dispersed
  • 19 million m3 off debris
  • 1,100 camps, 54 housed >5000 people
  • 600,000 left home area
  • $8.5 billion damage recovery
    75% of GDP
  • $5.8 billion pledged as aid - less than half given
  • Nothing done to modify event or vulnerability
  • $6 billion emergency aid
    48% of 13.34 reached Haiti